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The announcement comes after Donald Trump said he asked the Mexican leader to suspend oil shipments to Cuba. Sheinbaum has warned of a major humanitarian crisis on the Caribbean island.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Good for her. She's got balls of steel.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Mexico just made selling vapes illegal. Not possessing or using them mind you just selling them. They just gave vape sales to the cartels.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sheinbaum is awesome. I wish we could get a female candidate like her for the presidency in the US, but all they're willing to offer up to us are eminently corrupt centrists.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 2 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Haven’t you realized yet that Americans will vote for a senile, pedofile rapist over any female candidate you offer them.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

That is not true, and you can look at the 2016 vote tally as evidence.

The problem is that the female candidates we're being provided are walking dog shit.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) (1 children)

Compared to the senile pedofile rapist they should have been electable even if they were zombified dinosaur shit.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago) (1 children)

they should have been electable

You, and everyone else who uses that word, kinda just needs to stop. 2024 and 2016 proved that the notion of 'electability' is flawed and more than a little asinine.

Bernie and AOC were supposedly unelectable, and either would have done far better in either of those elections as evidenced by the fact that the Republicans adopted their politics (granted, only in the rhetorical sense) to get elected themselves.

Far as I can tell, "electable" just seems to me to be conformity to political norms, and people clearly do not want that, because the political norms are keeping them in poverty.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago) (1 children)

Wait AOC just turned 35 in 2024, she was literally “unelectable” before then according to your constitution.

Also I meant that word in the sense that anyone with a grasp on the English language (which all other candidates had) should have won against the senile rapist pedo.

I am Swiss, so English is actually my third (or fourth of you count dialects) language… if I read a word a lot in English media I tend to incorporate it into my vocabulary… so blame your media, not my grasp on your language.

And yes, I am a huge fan of Bernie and AOC - they are both great politicians who actually seem to care about the majority of Americans and not just about their donors.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

Also I meant that word in the sense that anyone with a grasp on the English language (which all other candidates had) should have won against the senile rapist pedo.

I understand your meaning. The problem is you're wrong.

And it's just annoying to me to keep hearing the word 'electable' as if that means anything.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

So why did the senile pedo win - apart from racism and sexism?

Would any woman have stood a chance? Maybe a really racist woman?

[–] whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

plus wind turbines & solar panels

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The oil will piss of Trump.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's still not worth it.

There's SO many ways you can piss off that thin skinned baby without further accelerating the extinction event that is climate change.

[–] ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, why is a heavily sanctioned island nation still reliant on oil? They should just make solar panels! It really is quite unusual and problematic to still require fossil fuels in this day and age. With a population about the size of Ohio, their country sure is significant contributor to climate change. I'm sure they'll be just fine without oil.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Gtfo with that ridiculous false dichotomy.

There are other and better options than "perpetuate reliance on the number one cause of the coming demise of humanity" and "don't provide any help of any kind"

Another commenter already mentioned helping with renewable energy production in this very thread ffs!

As for assuming that not being a major contributor to climate change on a global scale makes fossil fuels harmless to the people, that's a "smoking is actually good for you" level of willful blindness to reality 🤦